High Resolution Imaging of Young Planets

Current, state of the art, imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope andwith adaptive optics on large ground-based telescopes is insufficientlysensitive to detect starlight reflected from old cold extrasolar planets.However, massive planets with ages less than 100 million years aresufficiently self-luminous to be within our grasp now. This talk willfocus on the first successful infrared imaging detections of extrasolarplanets and on what can be learned now and in the near future from directimaging of such planets.

NAI Director's Seminar Series

The Director’s Seminar series features talks from scientists who are invited by the NAI Director to present their research results to the community. A primary goal of the seminars is to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration across NAI teams and within the astrobiology community at large.